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Superconducting Quantum Point contacts and Maxwell Potential

Superconductivity 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The quantization of the current in a superconducting quantum point contact is reviewed and the critical current is discussed at different temperatures depending on the carrier concentration as well by suggesting a constant potential in the semiconductor and then a Maxwell potential. When the Fermi wave length is comparable with the constriction width we showed that the critical current has a step-like variation as a function of the constriction width and the carrier concentration.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0610398,
  title  = {Superconducting Quantum Point contacts and Maxwell Potential},
  author = {Arafa H Aly and Jamila Douari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0610398},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

13 pages, 8 figures, some figures are clarified; scheduled to appear in an issue in MPLB Vo.21, (2007)